Project Spartan browser benchmarked, found to be pretty fast

A technical preview of Windows 10 was made available for download and now benchmarks of MIcrosoft’s new Internet Explorer Project Spartan web browser are available.

Done by AnandTech, the benchmark results reveal that Project Spartan is noticeably faster than Internet Explorer 11 and in some tests even outruns Chrome and Firefox.

Project Spartan is put JavaScript and HTML5 tests including Sunspider, Octane, Kraken, Oor Online, WebXPRT and HTML5Test. You can check out the results from the testing below.

Benchmark

IE Old

IE Experimental

Chrome 40

Firefox 35

Percentage Change

Sunspider (lower is better)

149.7ms

144.6ms

260.9ms

220.1ms

3.4%

Octane 2.0 (higher is better)

9861

17928

17474

16508

81.8%

Kraken 1.1 (lower is better)

3781.2ms

2077.5ms

1992.8ms

1760.4ms

45.1%

WebXPRT (higher is better)

913

1083

1251

1345

18.6%

Oort Online (higher is better)

1990

2170

5370

3900

9%

HTML5Test (higher is better)

339

344

511

449

1.5%

In the JavaScript oriented Kraken and Google Octane 2.0, Project Spartan scores a massive boost by 45.1% and 81.8%, respectively. It comes a lot closer to Google Chrome than Internet Explorer has ever been. However, the HTML5 compatibility of the new browser still needs a lot of work as it comes at 344 points, whereas Chrome and Firefox have 511 and 449 points, respectively.

Microsoft is still heavily developing the browser, so it’s bound to become better as Windows 10 travels the road to its final build.